A short San Marco slice of the Casanova Walk, from the Barbaro family’s Baroque monument at Santa Maria del Giglio to a deconsecrated church that now holds violins. Along the way: a Hemingway hotel, a working gondola ferry, and a wellhead dated 1521.

From Sant’Aponal to the Riva del Vin, this stretch of the Pescaria Walk follows San Polo’s old wine-trading streets, past two ancient churches and the stone standard that once governed the city’s barbacani.

The Ghetto Walk saves its best evening for last: a long canalside eat street, four stone figures with an uncertain story in Campo dei Mori, and the Gothic church where Tintoretto worshipped, painted, and was laid to rest.

Out of the campo, over the canal, and back past a winged lion and a watchful Hercules: a short diversion to Palazzo Albrizzi, the palazzo that saves its splendour for the inside.

From the sun-warmed Zattere to a doge’s palazzo: the closing stretch of the Salute Walk, by way of the Gesuati, Tiepolo’s painted sky, and quiet Campo Sant’Agnese.

Paolo Veronese’s parish church, an archangel with a fish, and a column from ancient Greece — a short slice of the Veronese Walk along the quiet fondamente of western Dorsoduro.

A slice of the Formosa Walk in Castello, from the Gothic arch of Calle del Paradiso through quiet parish lanes to Santa Maria della Fava and Campo San Lio – passing Canaletto’s front door on the way to his grave.

Four Venetians in a few hundred metres: a patriot buried in the side of the basilica, two bronze bell-strikers on the clock tower, a woman remembered for one well-aimed mortar, and a physician who put himself on a church façade.

The San Polo Walk opens quietly: a guild hall with shoes carved over the door, a senator asleep in stone above a side entrance, and the palazzo where Goldoni was born. A short first leg from the Grand Canal to Ponte San Tomà.